I'll be buying a loptop shortly, a high-end one, that I'll be taking with me to college, I'll therefore be using it for college work, as well as gaming. I will not however need a high-end laptop for my major (no engineering or 3 modelling), I merely want the high-end aspects for gaming, and I'm also sick of using slow bottom performance machines as I've been doing for years.

That said, I was initially going to buy the Alienware m15x. after doing some more research however, I found significantly recurring problems with the motherboards and build quality, as well as customer service and tech support. Even the possibility of a defective motherboard is essentially a deal breaker, especially if I can't count on customer support to solve the problem.

Now to the meat of this post. After some more research into sellers and manufacturers, I've settled (I think) on Malibal, which sell only customized laptops, the chassis are Clevo, and the parts are Intel and Nvidia for the most part. Have any of you had experience with the company? The only reviews I've found for the company and there products, are essentially all good, even the bad ones admit the problem was from the buyers side. A lack of any negative reviews seems a little suspicious to me, but I think it is primarily due to lack of marketshare.

Also, 17 inch or 15 inch? The specs are the same, and the price difference is 80 dollars more for the 17 inch one. I really can;t decide.